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The End of PostScript Type 1 Fonts (with Thomas Phinney)
August 23, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Adobe (and others) are discontinuing Postscript Type 1 fonts. Come discover what you need to know and do about it.
About this event
- Why is Adobe discontinuing support for Type 1 fonts?
- Who else has already discontinued support or is about to?
- What does this mean for you as a user, today and in the future?
- What will continue working and where might things break?
- What are your options for conversion/upgrades, and the associated issues—financial, practical, and legal?
- How compatible (or incompatible) are OpenType equivalents of your existing Type 1 fonts?
All this plus a Q&A, from one of the people who helped put the writing on the wall to end PostScript Type 1.
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Thomas Phinney helped lead Adobe’s conversion of their font library to OpenType in his time there (1997–2008), lastly as product manager for fonts and typography. He is a type designer and forensic specialist, as well as the former CEO of FontLab. Phinney was on the board of ATypI from 2004–2020, mostly as treasurer. He has four patents and a medal, an MS in printing/typography from RIT, and an MBA from UC Berkeley. His team’s open-source Science Gothic is a 4-axis variable OpenType font, and he currently develops OpenType variable icon fonts for Google.